Glo Kobo Glo: Need SD card image

[halilserhataksoy]

Yea finally I achieve to open PM option for my profile. So, could you send me too the kobo glo sd card image please? Thanks again.

[davidfor]

PM sent. And...

It is a complete and utter waste of your time and my time to make multiple posts and send me PMs without giving a reasonable amount of time for a response. I respond as soon as I can after seeing the requests. Which is usually within a couple of minutes of seeing the post. Multiple requests from someone actually makes it slower as I have to work out what I have and haven't replied to.

[jakob91]

I tried the 32gb SD upgrade to my Glo HD but now the image is frozen. I would like to have the url to get the image..

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by jakob91

I tried the 32gb SD upgrade to my Glo HD but now the image is frozen. I would like to have the url to get the image..

PM sent, but, why don't you just retry the image you took when doing this? Or put the original card back in. Also, try a factory reset. This seems to clear up a lot of problems after using the image.

[Eon]

Hi. My glo is stuck in restore loop no matter what i try. Can i request for a copy of kobo glo image and see if it will help. Thank you.

[davidfor]

PM sent.

[Kobobo]

After a factory reset my Kobo Glo doesn't work anymore,
the current firmware is probably too old to be upgraded...

Can anybody please tell me where I can find the SD card image?

[davidfor]

PM sent. But...

What does "doesn't work anymore" mean? And, if you think the firmware version after the factory reset is to old, then the image will not help as it was taken after a factory reset.

If "doesn't work anymore", means that the device is actually starting but cannot connect to Kobo when doing the setup, then see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...46#post4020346.

[Kobobo]

Thanks for the recovery image, the Kobo is alive again.

The whole story (somewhat long, but you probably like to read... )

I had used the Kobo for a while, but let it gather dust for a long time.
My sister asked if I had an e-reader she could borrow for the holiday.

I charged it a whole day, gave it a factory reset and handed it to her.
When she tried to use it, it gave her the network error we all know...

After a few tries it did not start anymore, the USB was also dead.

- I opened the Kobo using the guitar pick from my iFixit toolkit.
- I put the 2GB uSD in a USB reader and placed it in my Linux PC.
- I made a backup image of the complete SD card contents using 'dd'.
- I checked the SD card with 'fsck', it found and repaired some errors.
- Repairing these errors did not fix the Kobo, it still would not start.

There was a recovery partition that looked like the rootfs.

- I 'dd' copied the recovery partition to the root partition.
- The Kobo started, showing the "Connect to a PC" screen.

Tried the WiFi route again, it still displayed the network error.

- I 'dd' copied the recovery partition to the root partition again.
- The Kobo started, showing the "Connect to a PC" screen.

This time I tried the Windows Kobo desktop application setup route.
After I entered my Kobo account login, it started to update the Kobo.

- The Kobo showed a black multi-language "Applying update" screen.
- That screen became corrupted, resolution did not match hardware?
- I was not very patient, thought it was stuck, so I reset the device.

My conclusion: Either the firmware is too old, or the SD is damaged.

I went looking for a factory restore image and asked for your link.
Next day I found your PM in my e-mail inbox and I downloaded it.
This was at the office, so I missed your message on the forum...
That evening I tried it again, this time with a known-good image.

- I 'dd' copied your recovery image to the SD card.
- I tried the WiFi route again, which still did not work.

Bummer.

- I 'dd' copied your recovery image to the SD card again.
- I tried the desktop setup route, since it should work now...
- The Kobo showed a black multi-language "Applying update" screen.
- That screen became corrupted again, exactly the same weird lines.
- I was patient this time, letting it run until it finally rebooted.

The Kobo showed a garbled screen with the update changes:

- It showed a 3cm high black bar with noise at the screen center.
- The buttons at the bottom only showed when I touched it there.
- I could not close the update-changes popup using the (X)

Strange, did it install a platform update for the Glo HD?..
I found this page and downloaded kobo-update-4.33.19608

- I made a backup copy of the activated .kobo folder.
- I 'dd' copied your recovery image to the SD card again.
- I copied the activated .kobo folder to the user partition.
- I copied the update archive contents to the .kobo folder
- I started the Kobo, it found the update and went to work.
- The display was glitching again, but I let it finish anyway.
- The update summary was displayed without errors..!?

So it is repaired, woohoo! But I don't know what I did wrong before...

Thank you very much for the fast response and your support!

One thing I would like to address:

It is a bit risky / annoying that there are no public download locations,
the internet is designed for redundancy, this is a single point of failure...

If you need a free long-term host for your large essential recovery images,
perhaps the Internet Archive is a place to store them for future generations?

Thanks again, have a nice day!

[davidfor]

Glad it all worked. But, it should have been simpler than that.

Originally Posted by Kobobo

One thing I would like to address:

It is a bit risky / annoying that there are no public download locations,
the internet is designed for redundancy, this is a single point of failure...

If you need a free long-term host for your large essential recovery images,
perhaps the Internet Archive is a place to store them for future generations?

The images contain software that is owned by multiple companies. Posting it would be breaking copyright. Doing this, is not strictly legal. If Kobo ever says anything, then I will have to think about what to do.

[number1barber]

I just got given a n613 that hadnt been used for ages. had loads of freezing issues and finally after many restores it wont turn on. please may i have the disc image. I have removed the 4gb from inside but only have a 64gb to hand that said when it did work it was reading it fine.
thank you

[davidfor]

PM sent.

You can use a larger card and resize the book partition to use all the space. But, the Glo is old enough that it might not work with a 64GB card. When the Glo was newish, people tried various cards. From memory, there were no issues with 16GB cards but some 32GB cards did not work. I don't think 64GB cards were tested, and might not have existed at the time, so I do not know if it will work.

[number1barber]

cheers for that i think as time goes on the updates allow bigger cards as having it in the side slot it read 64gb. Your image got me further forward. it asked to setup then after hanging a few times the pc recognised it then updated to it but trying to sign in i got a error on the pc. when i unplugged from the pc it still said connected on the kobo and the power button did nothing. i plugged it in then it restarted and come up as updating on the kobo then the screen glitched out with weird lines so i unplugged it and plugged it back in it restarts. now its a white screen with scrambled lines. i think the battery is bad hence why it wont show the screen and freezes.

thank you for taking the time to send me the message i really appreciate it. have a great day

[Ferrovol]

Hello Kobo forum,
Please, could you send me the image file for N613 Kobo Glo?
My SD is broken and the Kobo is dead right now.
Thanks in advance.

[davidfor]

PM sent.